Famous quotes containing the words rare and/or earth:
“She could not love me
Were man as rare as phoenix.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds:
And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough.
Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys
Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)